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Re: [trinity-users] Can we have a mention of Slávek's repository on the web-site?

From: Greg Madden <gomadtroll@...>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 18:39:54 -0800

On Thursday 30 April 2015 05:13:21 pm Slávek Banko wrote:
> On Thursday 30 of April 2015 22:42:37 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > Can we have a mention of Slávek's R14 preliminary-stable-builds
> > repository on the web-site?
> >
> > With a short explanation of what it is, along the lines of: more
> > up-to-date versions and other architectures/distros can be found at...and
> > perhaps the following from an email of Slávek's:
> > 1) Add the source to sources.list:
> > deb http://mirror.xcer.cz/trinity-sb *distribution-name* deps-r14
> > main-r14
> >
> > 2) From some public GPG keyserver download the key and import it into
> > APT: sudo apt-key adv --keyserver pks.gpg.cz --recv-keys ED1F4884
> >
> > Explanation of why I thought of it now:
> >
> > Yesterday someone on one of my local LUGs' mailing list complained that
> > when he upgraded to Vivid his DE went to pot - I won't bore you with the
> > details. He went on:
> >
> > <quote>
> > Because of this, I thought I'd give trinity a go, but that doesn't
> > appear to have a vivid release yet.
> >
> > It looks like it's not my day today.
> > </quote>
> >
> > I hastily wrote sending my guess at the repository entry for Vivid, which
> > I immediately confirmed here and ratified to him.
> >
> > He replied:
> >
> > <quote>
> > Thanks for that.
> >
> > I was trying to follow the instructions from trinitydesktop.org and
> > using the pearsoncomputing ppa.
> >
> > Have I been looking in the wrong place?
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > I used the repository you suggested, and I've installed trinity
> > successfully.
> > [snip]
> > Until you mentioned it I had no idea that there
> > were other repos for trinity.
> > </quote>
> >
> > Whilst R14 preliminary-stable-builds has no pretensions to being Stable,
> > it is stable and is a valuable resource to us and could be to others.  It
> > seems worthy of a mention.
> >
> > Lisi
>
> Friends, I have prepared the following wiki page:
>
> https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Preliminary_Stable_Builds
>
> Any suggestions on where to put the page on the wiki to be easily
> accessible to users?

Darn..there goes the bandwidth :-)
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Greg M